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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Costa Morris wrote:
> 
> > I am running 2.2.2R and i have a 16bit kingston ehternet card which probes
> > as
> > NE2000 16 bit.  I host several sites and have a fair amount of traffic.
> > 
> > i was wondering if i would notice a performance difference if i upgraded to
> > a
> > 32bit PCI card with all the trimmings. or should i not even bother.  please
> > let me know.
> 
> Yes, absolutely!  The ISA cards drag more on your CPU; the PCI cards will
> make your machine run more efficiently when doing network traffic.  I ran
> a NE2000 in my Pentium for ages and lost ping -f wars with PCI ethernet
> cards, until I upgraded. >>:->
> 
> Kingston and Dayna are very good cards that are supported by FreeBSD and
> are inexpensive; the crown jewel is the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B but
> that is more expensive.
> 
> PCI Ethernet cards are worth the investment (assuming you have PCI slots
> available).

Do they need a bus master slot, or can I save those for my VGA and SCSI
cards?  And how much are the above mentioned cards (I already have a 3c509
and NE2k)?

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- alex